Category Archives: Trading Psychology

Trading psychology is ‘something’ that a trader creates from existing personality traits that are not initially related to trading, but surface from trading without method understanding.

Reacting versus Predicting in Trading

By | June 1, 2015 3:47 pm

Most of the best/Professional traders I have read about and know of personally do not predict what will happen they trade what is happening. New/Amateur traders always want to predict, they want to argue about their beliefs and why something must happen or will happen. Most Professional traders are rich because they are flexible, they… Read More »

Is it possible for an amateur trader to make sustainable profits ?

By | May 29, 2015 3:59 pm

Every traders wants to trade Big with a well funded trading capital of at least 10 lakh but very few are able to achieve this feat. Its often said Making the First Million is the most difficult thing once achieved money will flow in your coffers.   Trading small account is very difficult when compared… Read More »

Disposition Effect: Why Retail traders Lose in Stock Market

By | May 28, 2015 3:59 pm

Disposition Effect: It’s a tendency to close a profitable position early and hold on to a losing position longer, hoping that prices recover. Researchers working at the Centre For Analytical Finance at Indian School of Business, after examining terabytes of data pertaining to trading behavior of retail and institutional traders, found that trading done by… Read More »

Things You Should do Before Trading for A Living

By | May 26, 2015 3:54 pm

Everyone wants to know how much money they can earn if they learn to trade. Can they fulfill their financial goals and make trading for a living. Trading as a Business offer flexibility in schedule, working from any part of world, there would be no hassles with customers or employees and low overhead expenses ie.… Read More »

The Counter-intuitive Way To Control Your Emotions In Trading

By | May 25, 2015 3:44 pm

I don’t know any trader who doesn’t struggle at times with their emotions. Likewise, I don’t know any trader who doesn’t wish that they could control their emotions better. Here’s an excerpt from an email I just received from a trader named Srinivasa: I have a problem with hesitation. Even though I have a strategy… Read More »

How Traders can Optimize Trading Mindset Part-II

By | May 21, 2015 3:30 pm

In Continuation of Part -I Build You should have back tested and trusted trading system, rather than plucking one from the internet. I know it’s very tempting to simply copy the trading system of some (supposedly) successful trader, and it might very well be a very profitable strategy but the fact that it works for… Read More »

How Traders can Optimize Trading Mindset Part-I

By | May 20, 2015 4:01 pm

How to become a profitable trader has far more to do with mindset than with a specific trading strategy. In fact, no  trading strategy can be profitable if a trader has the wrong mindset. Today we will discuss How traders can optimize their  trading mindset Trading Goals This really is the kind of principle that… Read More »